Dempsey Burgess

Dempsey Burgess (1751-13 January 1800) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NC 8) from 1795 to 1799, succeeding William Johnston Dawson and preceding David Stone.

Biography
Dempsey Burgess was born in Shiloh, Camden County, North Carolina in 1751. He served in the Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1776, as a colonel in the Camden County militia during the American Revolutionary War, and in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1799. He died in 1800.